Large scale plants can wake up static spaces -
this room would have been lovely without the plant, but it makes the design more dynamic.
Your eye is directed to the rear corner of the room,
a trick I use in staging all the time to make a space feel larger.

I love this room for more than just the plants, but I thought this was interesting -
these are actually cuttings.
While I wouldn't cut down a tree to use as display, you could have a similar effect with potted plants.

Fiddle Leaf Figs are my favourite large plants..
imagine these rooms without them.

The best plants to me are useful ones, and I love fresh herbs in the kitchen.

Last supring Coco and I started herbs from seed, which I've never done before.
It was going great, then they all began to die.
We didn't have enough direct light to sustain the poor little things.
We popped them outside for the summer, where they thrived.
Now we're trying to find shade loving herbs to place in the kitchen..

hi, just wanting to know the paint color of the dark grey shown in first picture that I believe you'd said was your living room? I'm wanting to do one wall in every room grey and am attracted to the dark shades. Thank you!